K3B won't burn anything, period.

[Prototype2121]

I wanted to do a poorman's install of Debian/Knoppix, so I decided to burn off everything on my secondary FAT32 HD. As I go to burn with K3B, it says that there was a buffer failure, and to try using a lower speed. So I move it all the way down to 1x, and it still reports a buffer failure. Any ideas?

Oh, and I can't use XP or anything else instead, Knoppix is all I have at the moment.

[UnderScore]

Do you have DMA enabled? See my post here http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...?p=82884#82884.

[Prototype2121]

You know, that could very well be the problem. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to give that a shot next time I boot Knoppix.

[Prototype2121]

Ok, DMA works fine, everything is alot faster, but K3B still spits up the same error. I messed around with some settings on the burn, and now it says it was unable to allocate memory. Any other ideas?

PS, here was the last error it gave me.

Devices
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HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8400B B104 (/UNIONFS/dev/hdd, ) at /mnt/auto/cdrom1 [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R]
HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8481B 1.06 (/UNIONFS/dev/hdc, ) at /mnt/auto/cdrom [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM] [None]

System
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K3b Version: 0.11.20
KDE Version: 3.3.2
QT Version: 3.3.3
Kernel: 2.6.11

cdrecord
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Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.11
/usr/bin/cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
scsidev: '/UNIONFS/dev/hdd'
devname: '/UNIONFS/dev/hdd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
SCSI buffer size: 64512
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot get SCSI I/O buffer.

cdrecord comand:
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/usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap -v gracetime=2 dev=/UNIONFS/dev/hdd speed=1 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -data -tsize=323100s -

mkisofs
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323100

mkisofs comand:
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/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.20 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.20 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /ramdisk/tmp/kde-knoppix/k3bC0BKia.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /ramdisk/tmp/kde-knoppix/k3bX6Viqc.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /ramdisk/tmp/kde-knoppix/k3bvaGwxb.tmp /ramdisk/home/knoppix/.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp/dummydir0/

[fingers99]

I've seen a recent post on this: from memory (hah!) you need to configure K3B so that it can use a bigger partition as swap.